The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint.… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary theory had frozen to a dogmatic cult, with a simplified, easily graspable catechism, and with No. 1 as the high priest celebrating the Mass.” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
